Holy Family Catholic Church

830 Main Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

Telephone: 422-1135 Fax:423-0389
Email: HFC830@gmail.com and Sebchacko@hawaii.rr.com
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass Schedule
Monday-Saturday: 7:15 AM
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM
Sunday: 8:30 AM, 11:00 AM &
7:00 PM
1st SundaySamoan Mass-2 PM
3rd Sunday-Pohnpeian Mass-2 PM
Confessions Saturday:
4:004:45 PM
and after daily Masses

November 16, 2014

PASTORS CORNER
This week-end, we conclude our Scripture Readings from the Year A.
Our concluding Readings of the Season, before the celebration of Christ
the King, and the start of the Advent season is focused on Judgment.
In the First Reading, the industrious and faithful wife is praised. A worthy
wife is more precious than gold or jewels. In the Gospel, Jesus while
preaching through a very interesting parable, judges and praises the
faithful servants. The lazy servant is judged and punished because he
refused to make use of the talents that he had received.

First Friday of the Month

Benediction
After 7:15 am Mass

In the Second Reading Saint Paul advised the Thessalonians to be

awake and active and not allow the Day of Judgment to fall upon them,
like a thief who will break in, when they least expect him.

2014 THE YEAR

Final Judgment will be based on the good we do and the good we refuse
to do. Chapter 25 of Mathew is full of straight talk by Jesus, to explain to
us how and who are the ones who will make it to Heaven and be happy
forever in the life to come.

OF THE
CONSECRATED
LIFE
Come Follow me.
Matthew 4:19

WEBSITES
PARISH:
Holyfamilyhonolulu.org
ACADEMY
Hfcahawaii.org

Please read in the Announcement section of our Bulletin, the Happy

news about the purchase of the Land from the US Navy. We are grateful
to God for giving us the means with which we have acquired the property
on which our School and Church are built. For many years we have been
paying over $3000.00 dollars per month to the Navy for the use of the
Land. Now we must save and raise more funds to be able to renovate
and build additional facilities for the betterment of the Academy and the
Church. We look forward to your generosity and cooperation.
Every step that we will take, will be discussed and passed in the Parish
Council and the Finance Committee. They in turn will join the Pastor to
explain to our Parishioners and Parents and Teachers, our plans, so that
we have an opportunity to build up together, educational and spiritual
services to the children and Parishioners of Holy Family Academy and
Church. God bless our efforts. Fr Sebastian

WELL DONE,
MY FAITHFUL SERVANT

Presentation of Mary -Nov. 21st

Marys presentation was celebrated in Jerusalem in the sixth century. A church was built there in honor of this
mystery. The Eastern Church was more interested in the feast, but it does appear in the West in the 11th century.
Although the feast at times disappeared from the calendar, in the 16th century it became a feast of the universal
Church. As with Marys birth, we read of Marys presentation in the temple only in apocryphal literature. In what
is recognized as an unhistorical account, the Protoevangelium of James tells us that Anna and Joachim offered
Mary to God in the Temple when she was three years old. This was to carry out a promise made to God when Anna
was still childless. Though it cannot be proven historically, Marys presentation has an important theological purpose. It continues the impact of the feasts of the Immaculate Conception (December 8) and of the birth of Mary
(September 8). It emphasizes that the holiness conferred on Mary from the beginning of her life on earth continued through her early childhood and beyond. COMMENT: It is sometimes difficult for modern Westerners to appreciate a feast like this. The Eastern Church, however, was quite open to this feast and even somewhat insistent
about celebrating it. Even though the feast has no basis in history, it stresses an important truth about Mary: From
the beginning of her life, she was dedicated to God.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Nov. 18-Tuesday-Meet in Church
6:00pm-Our Lady of Perpetual Help Devotion
7:00pm-Bible Sharing
Nov. 27-Thanksgiving Day 8.30 Multicultural
MASS
Note: Holy Rosary is recited before each Mass
during the weekend and at 6:50 am Monday to
Saturday before the 7:15 am Mass.
Holy Family C. Academy Fall Fair
Mahalo, again, to all who supported the HFCA Fall
Fair either by purchasing raffle tickets or by contributing refreshments or other items for the Dessert Booth. Thanks to your generosity the Parish

Booth and the Fair were big successes.

Our Weekly Offerings

November 9, 2014
5:00 PM
$1,082.49
8:30 AM
$1,444.46
11:00 AM
$1,104.80
7:00 PM
$1,089.10
STAINED GLASS $2,600.00
ALL SOULS
$335.00

TOTAL

$7,655.85

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD.

Please support Holy Family Confirmation Kids, in
their effort to help children with new toys, school
supplies, clothing etc. This program is similar to the
CHRISTMAS TREE GIFTS, which we will organize from the First Sunday of Advent. Operation
Christmas Child will end on November 23.

FALL FESTIVAL
The Parish raised $ 2017.00 through sale of Raffle
tickets. The profit from our Dessert Booth will be
announced next week.

WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS

During this quarter we received $3,350.00 from the
Diocese. Thank you for your generosity.

PURCHASE OF NAVY LAND.

Two checks have been paid to the US Navy for
the Land. 1) 1.6 million for the Land of HF
Church & HFCA/ELC. 2) 56K for the closing
costs. Total 1,656,000.00 We thank God, that
we have been able to make this purchase with
money from our Savings. We thank Mrs Malins,
the Principal of HFCA and Mrs Kalei DMello
the Director of the ELC for their savings and
responsible stewardship.
The breakdown of the payment is as follows:
Academy: $1 million; Parish - half a million dollars; ELC 100 thousand dollars. And 56K from
the Academy for the closing costs. The land is
about 4.5 acres.

Church Bulletin: EditorJoe Padron, Phone 423-2439. Bulletin deadline is Tuesday 12:00 noon. Please
email notice and picture if applicable to pad.ronjoe@gmail.com

Holy Family Catholic Academy Annual Fair was held on November 7 with a Country Theme. The Parish
Booth raised hundreds of dollars from the cakes, cup cakes, lumpia, and other goodies donated by our parishioners.
Pictured below are several of the smiling volunteers manning the booth. There were games galore, blownup rides,
and food stands. The staff and teachers thank all the volunteers and children for your superb help during the fair.
Hundreds of parents and children attended the gala event. God bless all of you.

NEW PARISHIONERS: Newcomers are encouraged to register with the parish and are welcome to participate in all parish activities and ministries. Registration forms are available in the back of the Church.

The Rosary: Marys memories

The Rosary: A Prescription for Healing

In November of 2013, Catholic News Service published an article
describing how Pope Francis gave away twenty thousand boxes, each
containing a rosary, a Divine Mercy holy card, and what looked like
instructions for taking a prescription, to a large gathering of pilgrims
in St. Peters Square. At the conclusion of his Sunday Angelus address, he told the crowd, I want to recommend some medicine for all
of you. Its a spiritual medicine. He held up a medicine box with a
human heart imprinted on it and informed the pilgrims that there was
a rosary in each box. He added, Dont forget to take it. Its good for
your heart, for your soul, for your whole life.
The Rosary: healing medicine
The article continued to explain that the directions-for-use sheet that
came with the boxes recommended daily use of the beads for both
adults and children that receiving the sacraments increases the
efficacy of the prescription and that further information and assistance can be received from any priest. (http://
www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/ cns/1304848.htm) I couldnt
help but recognize that this holy prescription offered by Pope Francis
contrasts with a dangerous trend we have witnessed in healing and
deliverance ministry: a rapid increase in addiction to prescription
medicine. This is a plague that is affecting people from various walks
of life. One person reported, From the first time I abused prescription medicine, I opened the door for demonic harassment and the
temptations are unrelenting.

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The prayer of the Rosary is a memorial of the life of Jesus. Each

mystery of the Rosary is a mystery of remembrance of what God
has done for His people. Pondering the life of Jesus Christ helps to
renew our minds and hearts by drawing us closer to what is true,
good and beautiful. This can heal our negative memories also.
Contemplating Christs life with Mary intensifies our concentration
on Jesus. Im convinced that the best medicine for what ails the
human family today is precisely what Pope Francis has prescribed
a daily dose of the Rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. If
people take this spiritual medicine, they will end up in the confessional and at the Eucharistic table of the Lord, and Im convinced
that the evil ones power to oppress people will be greatly weakened.
The Rosary: a contemplative & intercessory weapon of prayer
The Rosary is a contemplative prayer and an intercessory prayer. It
is also a weapon against the evil one. The devil and his legions are
real, and they detest Mary and the holy Rosary! Once, during intense deliverance prayers by the priest leader, the demon screamed
through the mouth of the victim, Stop saying those beads! Those
beads burn me! Unknown to the victim, her mother was in an
upstairs room praying continuous Rosaries for her daughter. The
Rosary is continuously prayed, either silently or aloud, during official rites of exorcism because it is a weapon of scriptural prayer.
The Catechism asserts that prayer is a battle and that mans entire
life is a battle against the evil one (nos. 409, 2725). God made a
provision for this by equipping the Church with an arsenal of spiritual power (the sacraments and sacramentals) to make us victorious
over evil. The Rosary is one of the primary weapons of prayer.
Demons react most powerfully against the words of Scripture and
anything having to do with Mary. The Hail Mary prayer is composed, in part, of the words of the Angel Gabriel recorded in the
Gospel.
The Rosary: a compendium of the Gospel
In Rosarium Virginis Mariae, John Paul II referred to the Rosary as
a compendium of the Gospel and added the five Luminous Mysteries to the original fifteen mysteries of the Rosary:
For the Rosary to become more fully a compendium of the Gospel, it is fitting to add, following reflection on the Incarnation and
the hidden life of Christ (the joyful mysteries) and before focusing
on the sufferings of his Passion (the sorrowful mysteries) and triumph of his Resurrection (the glorious mysteries), a meditation on
certain particularly significant moments in his public ministry (the
mysteries of light). This addition of these new mysteries, without
prejudice to any essential aspect of the prayers traditional format,
is meant to give it fresh life and to enkindle renewed interest in the
Rosarys place within Christian spirituality as a true doorway to the
depths of the Heart of Christ, ocean of joy and light, of suffering
and of glory.